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Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | Fall 2024 I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astonish me, […]

Abstract: This seminar explores the linking functions of love, hate and curiosity. As humans, we are interdependent with others all of our lives. This interdependency keeps us physically vital, emotionally thriving and intellectually active. When early trauma occurs, dependency becomes dangerous and interdependency is avoided. Development then becomes spotty, with excellence in some areas and […]

Study Group – From Black Holes to Hope and Dread Photo credits: Title Schwarzwald (Black Forest) | December 5 2023 | Media: In-camera digital multiple exposure @ Van Dusen Botanical Gardens – Festival of lights | Photographer: Richard Markus In preparation for the Scientific Meeting with Judy Eekhoff on September 28, 2024, the WCPSI is […]

For tender translation: An Encounter Between Plato and Ferenczi Presenter: John Tavares | Discussant: Darren Thompson Art Credits: Artist: Raphael | Title: The School of Athens  |  1511  |  Fresco  “He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.”Plato, The Symposium Relying on concepts from Ferenczi’s 1932 paper on the Confusion of Tongues, John’s paper explores how […]

The Rules of Treatment and The Rules of Play: Ethical, Moral, and Technical Considerations in Psychoanalytic Practice Presenter: Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D. Chair: Judith Setton-Markus, M.Ed., R. Psych. Art Credits: Artist: Richard Markus  |  Perspectives   |  August 1 2023  |  Multiple exposures image  Dr. Kunst will explore the importance of the psychoanalytic frame with an emphasis […]

Freud Café Canada presents “The Leader’s Hypnotic Influence and the Creation of Alternate Reality” Saturday, January 20, 2024 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 12:00am (PT)A free online event via Zoom, in collaboration with WCPSI outreach. **Pre-registration is required. To register please email: admin@torontopsychoanalysis.comRegistration closes one week prior to the event.  Psychoanalysis has […]

A Kristevan Birth in Analysis: Case Material Expounds the Deliverance of Psychic Freedom Through Maternal Eroticism Scientific Meeting #4Presenter: Summer TelioDiscussant: Vaia TsolasChair: Darren Thompson Photo Art credits: Leonardo da Vinci | Madonna and Child Maternal eroticism is explored as an etiological agent in the birth of psychic freedom. Pre-Oedipal functioning is revealed in an […]

From Arrogance to Humility: A Psychoanalytic Venture into the Realm of Negative Capability We spend and too often waste a lifetime walking in the shadow of our ultimate unclaimed self.• James Grotstein Like one that on a lonesome roadDoth walk in fear and dreadAnd having once turned round moves on,And turns no more his head;Because […]

Analyst Vulnerability and Analytic Vitality Chair: Carolyn Steinberg Presenters: Carolyn Steinberg, Paul Steinberg, Darren Thompson, Elizabeth Wallace Art Credits: Carolyn Steinberg  |  Appears  |  2023 |  oil and cold wax Vulnerability is one of the most familiar and critical aspects of our clinical work. Analysts know that for a genuine sense of vitality to develop, […]

The Experience of Voice in Analytic Listening With Guest Speaker: Dana Amir Art credits: | Amanda Blake Soule | Silence 2020 | Photography Discussing the experience of voice in analytic listening, this paper describes the central role of the voice in psychic development as well as in the therapeutic process, focusing on two psychopathologies: the […]